Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Arrival 2016

  ★★★★ Watched 30 May 2023

  A beautifully paced sci-fi with a stunning emotional core and shocking yet well foreshadowed twist. Truly not a second wasted each scene is woven with empathy (except against China which is somehow still the enemy in an alien film). Shame the entire linguistic foundation has been disproved a million and one times, all my Hokies disregard Sapir-Whorf.

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  Decision to Leave 2022

  ★★★½ Watched 10 Feb 2023

  A real cerebral thriller yet enchanting. Incredible chemistry and such beautiful cinematography, if I was him I would’ve made the decision a lot earlier though

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  Rye Lane 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 25 May 2023

  A surrealist rom com for the ages. So much chemistry and whimsical shenanigans, the genre is reinvigorated with this new bar

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  Farewell My Concubine 1993

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 28 May 2023

  A melodramatic tour de force of misery, romance and intrigue. Only film ever to earn this egregious run time